![Item #3308 Information for Movement of 806th Pioneer Infantry for Overseas Duty [cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3308_01.jpg?v=1654706046)
[N.p., likely Camp Funston, Ks. ca. 1918]. 44pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, some adhesive remnants and small abrasions on rear wrapper, likely resulting from removal from a scrapbook, previous owner's signature on front wrapper, "W.E. Howard." Soft vertical crease throughout. A pocket-sized book of regulations governing the..... More
![Item #3031 True Sons of Freedom [caption title]. African Americana, World War I](/pictures/thumb/3031.jpg?v=1654783853)
Chicago: Charles Gustrine, 1918. Chromolithographed poster, approximately 20 x 16 inches. Minor creasing, a few small chips to edges, one small chip to image area. Framed under tinted glass, not examined outside the frame. A notable uplift poster honoring the brave contributions of African-American soldiers who fought during World War..... More
![Item #3249 [Collection of Photographs of an African American Military Family in Japan]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3249.jpg?v=1663341783)
[Japan: 1957-1959]. Eighty-seven original photographs, varying small formats, but most 3.5 x 3.5 or 3 x 4.5 inches. Some dampstaining to a few images. Contemporary manuscript captions and adhesive remnants on versos. Otherwise, clean and crisp images with only scattered minor wear. An engaging group of almost ninety original images..... More
[Mainly Germany: 1961-1964]. Twenty-two leaves, illustrated with ninety-one photographs in corner mounts, the first forty captioned in white ink on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary red fabrikoid, belt bound, paper label on spine. Decorative stamping on front cover has faded significantly. Minor edge wear and soiling, top corner of..... More
Great Lakes, Il. 1943. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 19.75 inches. A handful of heavy vertical creases, irregularly rolled, moderate edge wear, minor soiling. A unique annotated panoramic photograph picturing the segregated Company 1011 of the United States Navy at the U.S. Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois during World..... More
Great Lakes, Ill. 1945. Two panoramic photographs, 10 x 19.25 and 8 x 18.25 inches. Minor wear at corners; lower left corner of larger image partially stripped. Minor toning and dust soiling. A striking set of two panoramic photographs that comprise official portraits of African-American Naval Company 771 at the..... More
[Amchitka & Anchorage, Ak. 1944]. 111 original photographs, measuring from 2.5 x 3.5 to 3.5 x 5 inches. Oblong folio album, string-tied; leatherette boards, front embossed and color stamped. Manuscript captions on album leaves; photos in corner mounts. A bit of soiling and wear to album leaves, fading to some..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de la Escuela Correccional, 1899. 62pp. Original pebbled cloth, front board printed in black. Light wear and soiling to cloth. Contemporary ownership annotation on title page; former institutional ink stamp on internal leaf. Even tanning internally. Scarce Mexican edition of the Laws of War as formulated by..... More
San Antonio: [ca. 1916]. Ten original photographs, plus two real photo postcards. Most 3 x 5 inches, one smaller. Occasional, very minor wear. Images generally crisp and clean. A collection of ten photographs that depict activities of F Troop of the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment on the border with Mexico..... More
[N.p., probably Portland: 1916]. 36pp., plus two multi-panel folding panoramic photographic plates. Original tan wrappers printed in brown, accompanied by original printed mailing envelope reading, "A Souvenir of The Third Oregon Infantry on the Mexican Border." Very light wear. A scarce work featuring the officers, staff, and soldiers of the..... More
Fort Supply, Ok. January 3 to April 30, 1885]. [29]pp. Folio. Contemporary sheep, leather cornerpieces, gilt leather spine labels. Moderate edge wear, minor soiling to boards, spine labels heavily chipped. Binder's label on front pastedown. Internally clean. A valuable manuscript record of the service of the 24th United States Infantry..... More
New Orleans: December 26, 1862. [1]p. Old folds, short closed edge tear, one repaired edge tear. A rare general order from the Department of the Gulf, issued by Major General Nathaniel Banks as he was taking over command of the Union's western forces in December 1862. This order, dated December..... More
![Item #2769 Sabine Cross Roads, Near Mansfield, La. [caption title]. Civil War, William R. Moore](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2769.jpg?v=1645546092)
[Most likely Baton Rouge or New Orleans, La. 1864 or 1865]. Printed broadside, 14.25 x 6.25 inches, with text printed in two columns inside a decorative border. Old folds, even toning, minor foxing and creasing, small marginal chip to left margin. A Civil War commemorative poem in forty quatrains memorializing..... More
[Various locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas: 1862-1866]. About 200 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 600 pages, including both war-date letters and manuscript letters dated before the Civil War, mostly written in ink, with a few in pencil, most with original transmittal envelopes; plus five photographs and several other..... More
[Baton Rouge]: 1937. 184,[4]pp., plus four related ephemeral items laid in. Oblong folio. Original yellow illustrated wrappers printed in red and black. Minor edge wear, light dust soiling. Last two leaves detached. An elaborately-produced annual memorializing the Third District of the Civilian Conservation Corps located at Fort Devens, illustrated with..... More
Bogotá: Imprenta del Neo-Grandina, 1855. 65pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, rear lacking. Final leaf detached; Moderate creasing and wear at edges. Contemporary bookseller's ink stamp inside front wrapper. Light tanning and scattered foxing. In this scarce pamphlet, the suspended governor of Cartagena, Juan Jose Nieto, defends himself against charges..... More
Havana, Cuba: 1901. Original three-color ink artwork on light brown cloth, 7.25 x 19 inches. Light soiling, minor staining on verso. An elaborate piece of Christmas-time trench art created by Harry W. Loud, Sergeant of the 22nd Company of the Coastal Artillery while stationed in Havana, Cuba in the wake..... More
[New Orleans: ca. December 24, 1862]. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor creasing, a couple of short closed edge tears, light fraying to bottom edge, three small tape repairs to inner fold. An extraordinary document issued by General Nathaniel Banks in New Orleans on Christmas Eve, 1862, in which..... More
[Various locations, including California, Hawaii, and the Philippines. 1917-1942]. [85]pp., mostly folio sheets. Some light wear, a few sheets torn with no loss. Some with manuscript signatures or small notations. Archive of papers relating to the military career of Colonel Alva F. Englehart, spanning two World Wars and the entirety..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante, 1887. vi,216pp., plus folding plate. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Spine and edges somewhat worn; boards scuffed. Even tanning, occasional faint foxing. Folding plate with some heavier toning in places. Uncommon medical manual on military hygiene by Alberto Escobar, a 19th-century Mexican army..... More
Apalachicola, Fl. April 8 and June 21, 1840. [1],[1]pp., the first with an integral blank addressed in manuscript and with Apalachicola postal stamp. Original folds, minor toning and soiling. A pair of letters written by George Winslow while working in Florida during the latter years of the Second Seminole War..... More
Guatemala: 1855. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Small folio. Leaves no longer integral. Heavy chipping and wear at edges, quarter-sized hole through upper center of both leaves, but only a small amount of text actually affected. Moderate tanning and soiling. A scarce 1855 broadside in which Guatemalan caudillo Rafael Carrera addresses..... More
Guatemala: 1867. Broadside, approximately 13 x 8 inches. Trimmed a bit unevenly. Light tanning. An early 1867 broadside in which Vicente Cerna, President of Guatemala, announces that Mariscal de Campo Serapio Cruz has raised a rebellion in the jurisdiction of Sanarate for purely personal reasons and not for any that..... More
[Havana]: Impreso en los Talleres Tipográficos del I.N.R.A., [1961]. 211,[5]pp. 16mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Moderate wear and scattered staining; foot of spine chipped. Light, even toning internally. Scarce first edition of this famous guerrilla warfare manual by arch-guerrilla Ché Guevara, one of the iconic leaders of the Cuban Revolution that..... More
Mexico: Por la Viuda de Miguel de Ribera Calderon, 1711. [10],28pp. 4to. Later plain vellum. Boards bowing at fore-edge; small, narrow wormhole through front hinge. Title page printed in black and red; detached and reaffixed to stub. Light tanning and foxing; some dampstaining, heavier to rear leaves. A rare sermon..... More